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Misisi compound is a high density, low -income residential slum within the city of Lusaka. It has poor environmental health services, inadequate water supply and unhealthy housing. The poor environmental health and hygiene conditions expose children aged less than five years to various health...

The relationship between education and performance on neuropsychological tests has been established (Dotson, Kitner-Triolo, Evans, and Zonderman, 2009). It has also been found that ill-educated but cognitively healthy individuals get lower scores on neuropsychology test than mildly impaired but...

The status of selected minerals in soil, plants and goat plasma in Siavonga district of Zambia was evaluated in the rainy, cold dry and the hot dry seasons between November 2009 and June 2010. Samples were collected in November 2009 (late hot dry season), February 2010 (rainy season) and June...

Monthly faecal gastrointestinal nematode egg counts, coprocultures, differential larval counts and packed cell volumes of goats (according to age classes <6 months, 6 months to 1 year, 1 year to 2 years, more than 2 years) from two traditional farming areas (Chipembi and Shibuyunji) in Central...

The effect of irradiation on the Katete stock of Theileria parva sporozoites either directly (stabilate form) or indirectly (in their tick vectors) was compared to the 'infection and treatment' method of immunisation of cattle against malignant theileriosis. Fifteen steers were randomly divided...

Despite the implementation of the Fertiliser Support Programme (FSP), there were indications of food insecurity continuing among small-scale farmers in rural Zambia during the 2006/2007 farming season. The FSP was introduced by the Zambian government in 2002 under the Poverty Reduction Strategy...

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) workplace awareness programmes on high school teachers, knowledge, attitudes and sexual behaviour. The study assessed the impact of the HIV and AIDS...

The increasing number of women infected with HIV as demonstrated by the sentinel antenatal surveillance system is believed to be an important factor in the worsening maternal mortality being witnessed in Lusaka. By 1989, HIV/AIDS was already believed to have been the cause of a few maternal...

This is a clinical and laboratory comparative study of the clinical presentation and outcomes of Meningitis in 75 adult Zambian patients, 44 HIV positive patients ( 28 males and 16 females) and 19 HIV negative( 10 males and 9 females) and 12 (7 males and 5 females) whose serostatus was not known,...

The proliferation in institutional care facilities for children makes it increasingly imperative to understand the exact nature of services that these facilities provide and the impact they hove on children. Although residential care of young children has been cyclically embraced as a promising...